Posts Tagged ‘DDP’
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Hey Scott,
Been reading your board in regards to what everyone blames the death of WCW on, and wanted to connect to the man himself (you) for my thoughts. People like to blame Starcade 97 & the Finger Poke of Doom, and they are right, those things definately killed interest. But isn't just the lousy, arrogent, booking of Nitro the real thing to blame. I mean somewhere in 97 they got very over-confident and began airing never-ending Hogan masturbation promos w/ no real storytelling, just biding their time till Sting vs Hogan. Then in 98 there was some solid (questionable) effort. I mean they took a risk & split up the NWO & began building up Goldberg, with the DDP/Raven feud in the undercard. But then that summer the programming got really bad. The Warrior w/ his magic smoke & mirrors? Jay Leno/NWO Night Cap w/ Bischoff? And then after the poke of doom came the worst of all...The No Limit Soldiers. I mean instead of blaming one stupid incident, shouldn't we just blame it on years of bad TV?
There are a million things you can blame it on. The years of bad TV certainly contributed as much as anything else, but TV is easy to turn around in a few weeks. Killing PPV off? That’s tough to come back from.
Tags: DDP, Fingerpoke of Doom, Goldberg, Hulk Hogan, Nitro, No Limit Soldiers, NWO, Orange Goblin, Raven, Starrcade, Sting, TV, WCW, WCW Sucks
Posted in Rants | 68 Comments »
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Final one.
It was a one-match card for the most part...but oh what a match.
Enjoy.
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Tags: Batista, Bret Hart, DDP, Edge, Elimination Chamber, HHH, Hulk Hogan, John Cena, Locke, Lost, Michael Cole, Randy Orton, RAW, Royal Rumble, Shawn Michaels, UFC, Undertaker, Vader, Wrestlemania, WWE, YouTube
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
I stumbled upon Sting vs. DDP circa Nitro shortly after Spring Stampede 99 - awesome match right? Link: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRjAsdlwPU4&feature=related> Dub Cee Dub was still doing fine at this point I believe - Spring Stampede 99 was a HOT show. I thought DDP was a great white trash/ cheating/ heel champion and I don't think I'm alone. The Mach (Savage) was still on hiatus and on his way back. DDP should have kept the title until Mach came back and they could have re-ignited their '98 feud and Mach would have came away with the belt - AND THAT would have been the last time anyone over 40 held said belt - because Goldberg was on HIS way back - Macho could of held on to the title until he and Goldberg had it out - and I mean had it out- perfect scenario - WM VII style - they could do a little revamp of the Warrior and Mach battle because Goldberg had that superman aura about him. The point of all this - I declare that end of WCW TRULY started NOT with Hogan/Sting Starcade, NOT with the finger poke of doom, BUT with lazy face world champion Nash.
That is a hell of a match right there. They were also nuts for doing that double switch on the same show, though, and stuff like that killed them just as surely as the Fingerpoke or anything else did. It’s really not fair to just pin it on Nash.
Tags: DDP, Goldberg, Nitro, Sting, WCW, YouTube
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
The SmarK Rant for WWE Royal Rumble 2007
- Live from San Antonio, TX
- Your hosts are Jim Ross, Jerry Lawler, Michael Cole, JBL, Joey Styles & Tazz.
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Tags: 24, Attitude, Batista, Carlito, CM Punk, DDP, ECW, Edge, JBL, Jeff Hardy, Joey Styles, John Cena, Locke, Matt Hardy, Michael Cole, Miz, Nitro, Randy Orton, RAW, Ric Flair, Rob Van Dam, Royal Rumble, RVD, Shawn Michaels, Shelton Benjamin, Smackdown, Sting, Umaga, Undertaker, Wrestlemania, WWE
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
The SmarK Rant for WWE Royal Rumble 2005
- Live from Fresno, CA.
- Your hosts are JR, King, Cole and Tazz.
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Tags: 24, Batista, Booker T, DDP, Edge, Heroes, HHH, House, JBL, John Cena, Politics, Randy Orton, RAW, Royal Rumble, Shawn Michaels, Shelton Benjamin, Smackdown, Steve Austin, Sting, Undertaker, Wrestlemania, WWE
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
The SmarK Rant for WWF Royal Rumble 2002
- Live from the Underwater City of Atlanta.
- Your hosts are JR & The King.
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Tags: 24, Booker T, Canada, Chris Jericho, DDP, Dusty Rhodes, Edge, HHH, I Quit, Intercontinental title, Lita, Locke, Matt Hardy, Nitro, RAW, Ric Flair, Royal Rumble, RVD, Smackdown, Steve Austin, The Rock, TV, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, WCW, WWF
Posted in Rants | 68 Comments »
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
The Captain Hindsight Retro Review of WWF Invasion 2001
By red29 (redw29@gmail.com)
With the decade nearing a close and since I have been collecting wrestling DVDs at a pace like the movie 2012 is real and it is my job to archive professional wrestling for all of mankind, I wanted to take a look back and re-watch the pay-per-views of arguably the biggest storyline flop this decade– the Invasion. So I fired up the Amazon Marketplace and found new original copies of the Invasion (very easy actually), Summerslam, Unforgiven, No Mercy and Rebellion (hey, why not?) shows. I’m still shopping for Survivor Series 2001 and may have to settle for the future Anthology version much to my chagrin (the extras and non blurring may change my mind though).
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Tags: 24, Batman, Booker T, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Coalition, DDP, DVD, ECW, Edge, Gmail, Goldberg, Jeff Hardy, Lita, Michael Cole, Monday Night Wars, Nitro, Raven, RAW, Rob Van Dam, RVD, Shane McMahon, Smackdown, Steve Austin, Sting, TNA, TV, Undertaker, Vader, Vince McMahon, WCW, WCW Sucks, Wrestlemania, WWE, WWF
Posted in Rants | 17 Comments »
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
A couple of more upsets and close races this time, but nothing that went down to the wire.
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Tags: Arn Anderson, DDP, Hart Foundation, Jim Cornette, Undertaker
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
The ‘Captain Hindsight’ Retro Review of Halloween Havoc 1998
By red29
This show was played on WWE Classics on Demand this past month and I remember being so excited for this Supercard back in the fall of ’98. The Monday Night Wars were still up for grabs although the tide was certainly turning to the WWF. I had been watching wrestling religiously for a year at this point (started oddly enough with Starrcade ’97 at a friend’s house). I watched this originally from my college dorm room on a live internet stream from WCW.com, using a login/password from some IRCnet chatroom I think. That was pretty big for 1998. The point of this review is to see how this holds up eleven years later using my cynical jaded wrestling eyes. . Actually I’m a pretty positive guy and I WANT to enjoy what I’m watching. Anyway, I rate matches on the typical 5 * scale with your average match weighing in at **1/2. I did not dig up Scott’s original rant on this from the 411 or Pulse archives so anything that sounds familiar is strictly due to osmosis from reading all his stuff for the last eleven years (started on Wrestline.com). Let’s cue up the 24/7 montage…
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Tags: 24, 24/7, Batista, black eye, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Cracked, DDP, DVD, Edge, Goldberg, HHH, House, Legends, Locke, Lost, MMA, Monday Night Wars, Nitro, NWO, Raven, RAW, Starrcade, Sting, TV, WCW, WWE, WWF
Posted in Rants | 29 Comments »
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
WWF MONDAY NIGHT RAW
11/27/95
Replay of HBK incident from last week.
Your announcers are Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler. They plug Bret Hart interview with Brother Love and the main event, which is Kama vs Undertaker (more...)
Tags: Arn Anderson, Bob Backlund, Bret Hart, DDP, Edge, House, Hulk Hogan, Jim Cornette, Lex Luger, Locke, Macho Man, Monday Night RAW, Monday Night Wars, Nitro, Randy Savage, RAW, Sting, Undertaker, Vince McMahon, WCW, WWF
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